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The Clarizen playbook: How to make the most of Clarizen’s products

Every day, more businesses recognize the benefits of Clarizen’s innovative, user-friendly project management solutions. From software developers, to healthcare systems, to online marketing firms, organizations around the world are getting their work done smarter and faster with Clarizen’s suite of project management tools.

Whether you’re already a customer or are thinking about making a switch from your current software, this overview can help you identify the key ways that you can make the most of Clarizen’s industry-leading project management and collaboration tools.

Project Managers
Project managers in any industry can use Clarizen to break down the barriers between departments and business units and create engaged, high-performing teams. With dynamic features like interactive Gantt charts and enterprise-wide budgeting and expense management tools, Clarizen takes the confusion out of project and portfolio management. Enterprise PMs can also benefit from using Clarizen’s intuitive reporting tools to get real-time visibility into project performance, allowing them to identify risks and take action before a project runs into timeline challenges or budgetary trouble.

IT Teams
IT departments face unique challenges. They need a tool that is specifically designed to help them manage hundreds of requests and initiatives, while balancing the demands on department resources. Clarizen provides IT managers with the ability to view their entire project portfolio at a glance, making it easy to align team members’ expertise and skill sets with the project that needs them most.

With Clarizen, change requests, help desk tickets and other high-priority items are automatically populated with all the information needed for follow-up, eliminating the need for team members to chase down details before assigning a task. Clarizen’s online project management software is also highly configurable, so that teams can incorporate it into their existing workflows without the need for extensive training.

Professional Services
Professional services organizations, much like IT teams, must be able to manage a continuous flow of client requests without overloading resources or falling behind on service commitments. Clarizen’s work management solutions provide an ideal approach for tracking projects and bringing predictability and control to service engagements.

Project teams can stay up-to-date on the latest changes to deliverables or deadlines, and can use Clarizen’s online collaboration tools to stay in contact with internal resources and external partners. Clarizen also integrates with other common enterprise tools, allowing professional service firms to break down silos between departments and business units.

Marketing Teams
Creative teams cannot afford to ignore the importance of project management. Marketing firms are expected to provide top-quality deliverables while meeting project deadlines and budget restrictions, and Clarizen’s industry-specific marketing solutions can help teams meet each of those goals. With innovative project management solutions including document management tools and cost tracking functionality, Clarizen can give any marketing team the edge it needs to succeed in today’s competitive environment.